Errant Bodies studio
Cotheniusstrasse 6
10407 Berlin

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 / 19:30

The research-creation project Soundwalking from the research-practice of sono[soro]ridades, aims to develop the conceptual framework of the term Sono-(soro)rity, as a feminist collective practice approaching aural expressions and social coalitions. Under this subject, the presentation will introduce a small survey of activist and artistic projects by collectives embodying sound practices in Latin America, especially enacted through walks in the public sphere. Her talk will be followed by a night soundwalk featuring her latest project Sono-sono[walks], an audio Augmented Reality audiowalk that brings together the audio recordings of female-identifying, two-spirit, non-binary individuals about their experience of walking in urban space at night in Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, and Turkey.

Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of political listening and cultural identity by bringing into focus sound and walking practices. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as sound and performance art to investigate how conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and collective identities. Approaching these questions from aural perspectives continues to be of special interest to Gutiérrez, who completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently elaborating on the academic dimension of her work as a Ph.D. studentin Arts and Humanities at Concordia University. Gutiérrez has held numerous art residencies at FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks, SBC Gallery, amongst other. Gutiérrez is currently one member of the Board of Directors of the World Listening Project.